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If I wasn't clear I meant that I don't support the protesters bashing the troops while you support Coulter claiming the 9/11 widows enjoyed their deaths.



Again, that's your own spin, that completely bypasses the larger point Coulter was making.
When widows repeatedly hold press conferences slamming the President, they have made vicious allegations, and can no longer hide behind "grieving widow" status to protect them from answering a dialogue that they initiated on their motives and allegations.
"Grieving" widows don't hold press conferences and launch partisan attacks.



I'm not the one who has to run away from Coulter's original quote, so who's really doing the spinning? When Coulter refers to the 9/11 widows as bitches or claims they enjoyed their husbands' deaths it's not rocket science what Coulter is about.

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You can keep on repeating your rationalization of Coulter's character assasinations, I'll keep repeating my dissagrement & distaste for her nastiness.



You keep giving partisan distortion of what Ann Coulter actually said , and I'll keep redirecting the discussion to the true situation and facts.
Coulter is responding to "nastiness" from the Left, not initiating it.



Why not print some excerpts from the interview that you feel better explain how Coulter really didn't mean that the widows enjoyed their deaths. I'm sure there's a transcript version out there that you can use if you don't want to use the Media Matters one that I posted earlier.


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I support the troops. There are posts in the past where I've voiced that support.



You hate the mission but support the troops?

It's hard to remember who (among liberals) said what here on RKMB after almost three and a half years of war. But I'd like if you could detail how you support the troops when you're, by all appearances, so opposed to every aspect of the war in Iraq.
It seems to me that in wanting to withdraw them prematurely, you want their sacrifice over the last three-plus years to have been for nothing.

I know that comes across as mocking, but it's not. How do you reconcile the two (opposing the war, supporting the troops). I'd just like to understand that perspective.



Fair enough. I don't hate the mission as you say. The goals were all good IMHO. I just believe people like Murtha who argue it's now a matter of how many troops die before we pull out. We've gone from fighting terrorist to fighting a growing number of insurgents. As much of the mission has been achieved as can be.

Fair play!